jaimie · HackerTrans

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

These resources are amazing, thanks for sharing.

The short-term realization of data portability was done in Streets of SimCity, which allowed you to import a SimCity 2000 file and actually drive through the city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

Nothing, Forever was basically this idea applied to Seinfeld. The video quality was low, but some of the ways it captured the same absurdities as Seinfeld was remarkable at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Forever

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

It's already being done: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

jaimie

قبل شهرينdiscuss

I still use last.fm via Spotify. It is wild to see my entire listening history from 11th grade to present (20 years!). Always fun to poke through and see changes from one year or life phase to the next.

jaimie

قبل شهرينdiscuss

"I've no idea why one would use gpt-oss-20b at Q8" - would you mind expanding on this comment?

In that particular model family, the choices are 20B and 120B, so 20B higher quant fits in VRAM, while you'd be settling for 120B at a lower quant. Is it that 20B MXFP4 is comparable in performance so no need for Q8?

Or is the insight simply that there are better models available now and the emphasis is on gpt-oss-20b, not Q8?

jaimie

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Woke up to several notifications that should’ve gone to promotions/updates/social/etc. Frustrating.

jaimie

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Does it though? I mean I'm still teaching thread-safety and recursion to my interns... a solid foundation is a solid foundation.

jaimie

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

This was a very well written retrospective on web development. Thank you for sharing!

jaimie

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

The world of the Digital Humanities is a lot of fun (and one I've been a part of, teaching programming to Historians and Philosophers of Science!) It uses computation to provide new types of evidence for historical or rhetorical arguments and data-driven critiques. There's an art to it as well, showing evidence for things like multiple interpretations of a text through the stochasticity of various text extraction models.

From the author's about page:

> I discovered digital humanities (“humanities computing,” as it was then called) while I was a graduate student at the University of Virginia in the mid-nineties. I found the whole thing very exciting, but felt that before I could get on to things like computational text analysis and other kinds of humanistic geekery, I needed to work through a set of thorny philosophical problems. Is there such a thing as “algorithmic” literary criticism? Is there a distinct, humanistic form of visualization that differs from its scientific counterpart? What does it mean to “read” a text with a machine? Computational analysis of the human record seems to imply a different conception of hermeneutics, but what is that new conception?

https://stephenramsay.net/about/

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